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skulker
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Posted: Sun Mar 16th, 2008 12:53 am |
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| Now that corn is costing so much what else do you think could be put in the feeders besides corn? I was thinking of some deer nugets or what ever they're called, was given some and it went throught the feeder during deer season. You think hogs would eat it or just the coons?
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Chick
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Posted: Sun Mar 16th, 2008 08:35 am |
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| Protein pellets cost more than corn. I use it in protein feeders, but you have to mix it half and half with corn, to get it to flow right.
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Posted: Sun Mar 16th, 2008 03:43 pm |
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| Chick, I called Ritters the other day and they are getting $6.55/50 lb sack. Sister n law bought some down your way and she paid $5.97 for 40 lb sacks. I heard by this next hunting season we can expect to pay in the neighborhood of $8.00/50 lbs. We went through 3 tons this past season. At 8 bucks a sack that almost $1000.00,,, OUCH. I'm going to look into buying bulk corn this year.
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Chick
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Posted: Mon Mar 17th, 2008 12:28 am |
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| Gander Mountain is getting $5.99 for 40# but they are out. I called around to the feed stores, and they were all getting $8.49 for 50#! Yeah, I bought 6 sacks of corn and 6 sacks of protein pellets, and put it in the protein feeders. I also foound the 6 volt rechargeable, spring top batteries at Wal Mart, on mark down, for $1 each. Do you want me to pick you up a couple?
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Chick
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Posted: Mon Mar 17th, 2008 04:44 am |
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By the way, there is a guy in Buna that is selling bulk feed. I understand that the people that bought some said that, when you figure the drive to Buna, they didn't save anything. I will be talking to this fellow, about bulk horse feed, and will ask about corn prices, and let you know
Anyone else have any knowledge of corn prices in your area?
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Posted: Mon Mar 17th, 2008 06:07 am |
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We're good on batteries. Wanda found the same deal and found the dual battery chargers for like $4.00. The bar looks like we are running a battery warehouse.
You are right about buying the bulk corn and the drive. By the time I figured in diesel to Buna and back I'd have to get at least 2 tons to make it worth the trip. I could use the first ton just filling all the feeders but then I'd have to worry with keeping the weavels out of the rest until it was used.
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Posted: Mon Mar 17th, 2008 10:53 am |
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I'm only filling 4 - 55gallon feeders, and have them cut wayyyyyyy back. Right now,I just have the feeders spinning for 2 seconds in the morning only, to cut back on corn cost. I did take time to move the protein feeders before I filled them. And I am trying the Blue Bonnett pellets(20%) instead of Purina(16%). I'll bet the hogs love them just as much!
Skulker, to answer your original question, I bought soy beans from the Texas A&M Experimental AG Station, just west of Beaumont, and tried them in the feeders. The deer never acquired a taste for them. I have heard of people using Soy beans and peas, in other parts of the country, with great success. The problem is, that corn is about the cheapest thing out there. I also notice where corn use to be listed at 9% protein, it is now listed at 7% protein.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 12:26 am |
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Why aren't y'all feeding rice bran?
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 03:20 am |
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| rice bran? boarmaster educate me on this do you feed it for hogs, does it go in battery operated feeders like corn? I talked to my uncle down in LA. and I could proberly get some corn from him but the price of gas to run my truck down and back won't make it worth it I think
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 04:24 am |
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| Skulker, rice bran is a thin outer layer on rice kernels that is removed leaving the rice white instead of brown. It is almost in a powder state when removed from rice. Brown rice is just rice that still has the bran layer on the kernel. Rice bran is very good feed for hogs and will sack the fat on them quick. It will not meter through battery operated corn feeders. It packs firmly and absorbs moisture quickly. I would think it would have to be feed in a trough type feeder.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 05:57 am |
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I use to feed rice bran mixed with shorts and bread, to my hogs, when I was raiseing them for market. Yes, it would have to be fed out of a trough or free flow feeder. If it gets wet, there goes the flow!
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 12:57 pm |
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| thanks for the help but now I got more quistions. What is a free flow feeder? Or should I just spread it on the ground when I go hunting? I go out there about once a week
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 11:28 pm |
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Put it on the ground, don't even try to use a feeder with it. It will even lock up in a gravity feeder after a rain, but the hogs and deer love it. Deer can be finicky with it; sometimes they will eat it everyday and sometimes they will turn thier nose to it.
Make a rice bran feeder and you will be rich tommorow
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 11:36 pm |
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Nutoy wrote: Skulker, rice bran is a thin outer layer on rice kernels that is removed leaving the rice white instead of brown. It is almost in a powder state when removed from rice. Brown rice is just rice that still has the bran layer on the kernel. Rice bran is very good feed for hogs and will sack the fat on them quick. It will not meter through battery operated corn feeders. It packs firmly and absorbs moisture quickly. I would think it would have to be feed in a trough type feeder.
Good job NUTOY, now here is a big tip from the BOARMASTER!
If you remove the bran that is between the kernel and the hull of the rice; then you could say that you extracted it "PLANT EXTRACT." If you dye it white and put it in a white jug with a picture of a real big buck on the label; then you have a product that you can sell for $20.00 a gallon and say it contains plant extracts
Imagine the mark up on .20 cents worth of rice bran that they are getting for it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 21st, 2008 01:14 am |
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Where can you get the rice bran? looking for a way to get the hogs to come in and stay in the area longer. Mainly hunt a farm that grows corn and soybean.
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